“A 101-Year-Old Artist Finally Gets Her Due at the Whitney”
—The New York Times
“Virginia Woolf used to say that art has no gender. There is no such thing as female art. This is very clear in the new Whitney Museum exhibition of 101 year-old Cuban hard-edge painter and sculptor Carmen Herrera.”
—Damn Magazine
“Alongside the works a narrative explores the possible reasons why Herrera has spent most of her career working in near total anonymity.”
—IdeelArt
“This survey . . . helps fill in the narrative of post-World War II abstract painting migrating from Europe to the Americas.”
—The New York Times
“Herrera makes the case: ‘You cannot talk about art; you have to art about art,’ she says, smiling (and lightly pounding a desk for emphasis).”
—The New York Times
“Colours parry for dominance: for a moment red reigns, but a slight adjustment in perspective suddenly forces that hue into submission.”
—The Financial Times
“Each of the roughly 50 works here from the middle of her career confirms the maker’s systematically intuitive mind, one that is still engaged with her art at the age of 101.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“A Carmen Herrera Solo Exhibition at the Whitney”
—The New York Times
“11 Female Artists Who Were Pioneering Minimalists”
—Artsy
“…the Whitney’s show presents her as an artist of formidable discipline, consistency and clarity of purpose, and a key player in postwar art history.”
—The New York Times
“Fall Arts Preview: Mexican Modernism, Monet, and a new Smithsonian Museum”
—The Guardian
“101-Year-Old Artist Carmen Herrera Finally Gets Her First Solo Show”
—The Cut
“At 101, Carmen Herrera Looks Back At Her Astonishing Career”
—artnet News
“Changing Colors: New Art Exhibits in NYC This Fall”
—The Village Voice
“Stretching up to five feet wide, her newest works are ambitious as ever, and give a taste of what’s to come in her survey at the Whitney Museum this September.”
—W Magazine
“Overlooked But Undeterred, A 101-Year-Old Artist Finally Gets Her Due”
—NPR
“‘Carmen was free to pursue her art as she saw fit, without needing to please anyone but herself.’”
—Blouin Art Info
“Women (Finally) Lead the Way in New York Museum Shows”
—Observer
“More than half a century later, the 101-year-old artist is finally getting the attention she deserves . . ..”
—Wallpaper Magazine
“In Art This Fall, Women Win in a Landslide”
—The New York Times
“Artists this good are typically discovered only posthumously. It’s to everyone’s benefit that Ms. Herrera is still around to enjoy her belated and deserved acclaim.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“Savor the complexity of simple shapes.”
—The New York Times